Displays a detected
misspelled word. The word is considered misspelled because it could not
be located in any open dictionaries or was marked with an exclude action.
You can edit the word in this box or select a suggestion from the list.
Then, click the Change button
to correct the word, or press the Ignore button to skip the word.

Suggestions

Displays a list of suggested
replacements for the word reported as misspelled. The word selected in
the Suggestions list will be used as the replacement when the Change
or Change All buttons are pressed,
unless the word in the problem box was edited.

Ignore

Click to skips this
occurrence of a misspelled word. If the same misspelled word appears later,
it will be reported again.

Ignore
All

Click to skip this and
all further occurrences of a misspelled word. You might use this button
if the word reported as a misspelling is actually spelled correctly. If
the word is one you use frequently, you may wish to ignore it permanently
by selecting the Add button.

Add

Available only if a
user dictionary has been selected in the Add
Words To drop-down menu. Click to add the reported word to the
dictionary selected in the Add Words
To drop-down menu. Use if a correctly spelled word you use often
is reported as a misspelling (e.g., your family name). If the word is
not used frequently, you may want to select the Ignore or Ignore All buttons
instead.

Change

Click to replace the
reported word. If the problem word was edited, the edited word is used
as the replacement. Otherwise, the selected suggestion is used as the
replacement. Only this occurrence of the reported word is replaced. If
you want this and all following occurrences of the word replaced, click
the Change All button.

Change
All

Click to replace this
and all following occurrences of the reported word. If the problem word
was edited, the edited word is used as the replacement. Otherwise, the
selected suggestion is used as the replacement. If you want only this
occurrence of the word to be replaced, use the Change
button. If the reported word is one you frequently misspell, you might
consider adding it to a user dictionary via the Dictionaries
dialog box. You can display the Dictionaries
dialog box by selecting the Dictionaries
button.

Suggest

Click to search more
thoroughly for suggested replacements for the current misspelled word.
Subsequent clicks may yield more suggestions. The Suggest
button is disabled once all possible suggestions have been located.

Options

Click to open the Options dialog box, allowing you to
set spelling-checker options.

Dictionaries

Click to display the
Dictionaries dialog box, allowing
you to open or close user dictionaries and to edit the contents of user
dictionaries.

Help

Click to open a context-sensitive
help topic.

Add
Words To

Select a dictionary
to which to add words when you click the Add button. The Add
Words To list shows all user dictionaries currently open. You can
open or close other dictionaries via the Dictionaries dialog box, which
is accessible by clicking the Dictionaries
button.